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...prime-time slot, spawned a series of other "entertainment news" shows like NBC's Speak Up America, it also turned TV executives on to the fact that low-budget programs produced without costly sets and high-priced talent could be hugely successful. While the tab for producing a half-hour sitcom might come to $300,000. the bill for an hour of reality programming may be $250,000 or less. Another spur to such shows has been the 2½-month actors' strike, which made the filming of dramas and sitcoms for the new season impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Incredible? Or Abominable? | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

Saturday's celebration began with a reenactment of the city's founding in 1630 and ended with a 12-inch shell exploding over the Charles to cap a half-hour of fireworks set to music...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Marks 350th Birthday | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...overheated water pump filled the sub-basement of Widener Library with smoke yesterday evening, setting off an automatic alarm and causing a half-hour evacuation of the building. No books were damaged and no one was injured in the incident, Thomas V. Scott, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, said last night...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Basement Fire at Widener Causes Temporary Evacuation | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

...that tolltakers are bored by what has to be the world's most monotonous job. Not so. Not on the Delaware Bridge anyway, if the long waiting list for jobs is any barometer. Shifts are regular: the same eight hours daily with two 15-minute beaks and a half-hour lunch five days a week. Salaries increase to $8.05 an hour within three years. All you have to do is count the axles on trucks slowing for the booth, make an appropriate "axle hit" on a twelve-key register, gather in the toll, make change and tally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Delaware: Traffic Takes Its Toll | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...bagged appearances on The Gong Show, the Unknown Comic is on the verge of becoming known. The bag-headed comedian has been offered the lead role, without the bag, in a television pilot called Scared Stiff, about a bumbling private detective. He is also close to doing a syndicated half-hour variety show that would star the Unknown Comic, with...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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